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The University of Alaska is constructing the $87-million Integrated Science Center on its Anchorage campus. Designed by a joint venture of ZGF of Seattle and ECI/Hyer of Anchorage, the 128,000-sf facility will house classrooms, administration, a vivarium, a planetarium, and 24 interdisciplinary laboratories. The CM-at-risk for the project is Cornerstone Construction Company. Site work began on the center in September of 2006 with completion expected by fall of 2009.

West Virginia University (WVU) has completed construction on its $16-million Health Sciences Center Library and Center for Learning in Morgantown, West Virginia. Opening for classes in January of 2007, the facility combines library and classroom facilities in a progressive design that also accommodates lecture halls, auditoria, and a national center for Positron Emissions Tomography (PET) education.

Santa Clara County is building a $74-million forensic crime laboratory in San Jose, Calif. The four-story, 90,000-sf facility will be the first government-owned laboratory in the San Francisco Bay Area with a DNA analysis system when it opens in 2008. The project, which will enable the study of physical evidence from crime scenes including toxicology, latent print processing, and substance analysis, began construction in May of 2006.

Qualcomm has completed the 909,170-sf Building W Campus in San Diego. The three-building project was designed by Delawie Wilkes Rodrigues Barker and built by general contractor Roel Construction with Burkett & Wong as structural engineer and Walsh Engineers as mechanical engineer.

UC Davis opened its new Education Building and the F. William Blaisdell Medical Library on the school's Sacramento campus on December 11, 2006. The $46-million, four-story structure replaces classrooms and offices in Davis and unites the medical school's educational facilities on a single campus.